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New one yesterday, truck hit by car

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Mike Cumbo
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We were sitting in the truck rehearsing, talk show, and crunch shake and WTF?? Engineers go running out the truck. A PA comes in and says "Hey, there's a car stuck under the truck". The truck survived. Might need a visit to the builder to see if everything is 100% but we were able to do our show.

martinhz
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So your swedish isn't that good, huh? :-) You are right, the HD1 has 8 cameras more or less always in the truck and then we have a pool of cameras who we move around where the need is for the moment. The infrastructure in the truck supports 12 cameras without the need for more cables. The info on the website is a little bit old, HD2 for example nowadays always goes with 10 hdc1500, 3 hdc3300, 2 hd1100 and a gigawave d-cam, as we do a lot of large soccer games every week. mh
Mike Cumbo
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[quote]8 kameraer (klargjort for 12)[/quote] Martin, my language skills aren't that great but the above quote, taken from your company's web site, does that mean 8 cameras, wired for 12? (Or capable of handling 12 cameras)? Just found the English PDF files. Always interesting to see how others build trucks.
martinhz
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On one of the production days of Deal or no deal 2 years ago, a semitrailer crashed in to the side of our truck when he was going to turn around a corner. Luckily the damage was cosmetic only. Another funny episode was when the firealarm starts sounding in the studio during the live transmission of Let's Dance. The MCR just told us that we had to finish the segment, and the host tried to make a joke out of it on air. The studio guy was really nervous hehe...
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I was in a truck doing a show it was a straight truck, and one of the airbags blew. The truck was not on jacks, we were in prepro and had to run from the rocking truck. That made for a fun, and scary day for the crew and engineer. The was the oddest situation I have seen to date.

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Mike Cumbo
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It was All Mobile Resolution.
Steve Meyer
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There aren't a lot of double-expandos out there (relative to the number of expandos, anyway). Do you mind sharing which truck this is that got hit?
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Mike Cumbo
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No, we were stuck rehearsing for probably an hour past impact. When we got out there was auto glass and a slightly damaged expando section. The EIC had a hammer and wrench out straightening things out. The trailer was a double expando, the monitor wall and part of audio slide out as well as the normal expando for more production space. The street side, audio and monitor wall, took the hit. I don't know what the car looked like.
Bill D
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[quote="Mike Cumbo"]We were sitting in the truck rehearsing, talk show, and crunch shake and WTF?? Engineers go running out the truck. A PA comes in and says "Hey, there's a car stuck under the truck". The truck survived. Might need a visit to the builder to see if everything is 100% but we were able to do our show.[/quote] No pictures ? :)
Matt Saplin
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I can relate, Mike ... great story! When I lived up in NY, I was doing a college football show for the local Time Warner shop. As the clock ticked to the final seconds of the 4th quarter, BANG .... BANG ... BANG, the truck is rocking back and forth, only to be followed by the EIC yelling and swearing. Well, we were parked in a parking lot outside of a fraternity house, and one of the brothers had a few drinks and backed into the truck 3 times. There were cops everywhere and college security, too ... not sure what happened to the guy, but it made for a memorable production.